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Second Trimester Pregnant Women
1,557 wordsTo an outsider a miscarriage may appear as a bit of bad luck soon to be got over, but to the couple involved the loss of the pregnancy, even at a very early stage, may be utterly devastating and the miscarriage may have profound and prolonged emotional effects on them as the following comments illustrate: In the days that followed (the miscarriage) I grew to feel such failure, having let down my husband and my family who could have enjoyed a child or grandchild if I had been able to carry him / ...
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Hydrogen Atoms Oxygen Atoms
824 wordsTwo Americans and a Japanese were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing more efficient chemical reactions to produce many medicines, including L-dopa, the standard treatment for Parkinson's disease. Dr. William S. Knowles, 84, of St. Louis, who retired from the Monsanto Company in 1986, and Dr. Ryoji Noyori, 63, director of the Research Center for Materials Science at Nagoya University in Japan, shared half of the $ 950, 000 award. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, 60, a professor of...
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Months Of Age Hepatitis B
655 wordsGeneral Information In the general population, hepatitis B is considered primarily a sexually transmitted disease. It is also transmitted in blood and, prior to the availability of hepatitis B vaccine, health care professionals such as doctors, nurses, and emergency personnel were at risk for contracting hepatitis B. Because it is easily transmitted by blood (one virus particle can cause disease), intravenous drug users who share needles and syringes are at extremely high risk. The other common ...
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Girls And Women Surgeon Generals
1,362 wordsOption Paper Abstract: There is ignorance about the health risks of tobacco. There is further darkness over the risks related to smoking women. It is not that men are spared but here we would deal only with smoking and women. Although there is heavy ponder over health issues like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, atherosclerosis and cancer. How innocent our society is to ignore causes and trying to combat effects? Tobacco still remains to be one of the largest threats to health and most imp...
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Oral Contraceptives Bright Lights
1,125 wordsSpeaking about the most common neurological conditions it is believed that headaches are the most common and widely spread. They come in various intensities, lengths and locations. An average American citizen has at least one headache a year. The migraine headache is the most renowned a headache type experienced by about 6 percent of all men and 18 percent of all women. It makes almost 10 % of the population that suffers from the killer headache. But a migraine isnt a headache. It is a neurologi...
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Areas Of The Brain Cerebral Palsy
799 wordsThough many people refer to Cerebral Palsy as a disease, in reality, it is a group of chronic conditions affecting body movement and muscle coordination. Since it is caused by damage to one or more specific areas of the brain, it usually occurs during fetal development; before, during or shortly following birth; or during infancy. Broken down, Cerebral Palsy stands for Cerebral- the brain, and Palsy-muscle weakness / poor control. Cerebral Palsy is not progressive, but secondary conditions can d...
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Coronary Heart Disease Funk 038 Wagnalls
1,611 wordsBanes 1 Ms. BuccholzC 411 / 2 / 98 Kick the Habit Since the turn of the century, smoking has been an American pastime. Smoking cigarettes was a way to relieve stress, relax, and enjoy life. Smoking was considered harmless until about 50 years ago. The American Tobacco Company disagrees with this. Research since then has proven much about this American pastime. The American Tobacco Company refuses to believe that smoking cigarettes can cause various types of cancer. This includes lung cancer, and...
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Electro Magnetic Magnetic Fields
1,480 wordsTechnology and the individual: How Electro- Magnetic Fields Affect our lives Electricity is the building block of our society. Now more and more we are becoming dependent on electricity from computers to microwaves, electric power is what keeps our society running. Something that no one thinks about is Electro- Magnetic Fields or (ELF? s). While these ELF are being ignored slowly they are becoming a silent but deadly killer in our society. Scene cancer and illness are becoming so common people a...
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Electro Magnetic Magnetic Fields
1,441 wordsElectricity is the building block of our society. Now more and more we are becoming dependent on electricity from computers to microwaves, electric power is what keeps our society running. Something that no one thinks about is Electro- Magnetic Fields or (ELF? s). While these ELF are being ignored slowly they are becoming a silent but deadly killer in our society. Scene cancer and illness are becoming so common people are slowly coming around about what ELF? s are and what if anything can be don...
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American Medical Association Tens Of Thousands
2,362 wordsWhy Abortions Must Be Legal No matter how any of us feel about embryos and fetuses and their rights about women and sex and responsibility about Gods will, Karma, or the Bible the fact still remains: Women have always used abortion as a last resort to prevent the birth of a child, and they always will, regardless of what the laws say or the rest of us think. But when abortion is illegal, it is unsafe and dangerous. Therefore, abortion must be legal, and it must be accessible too. Abortion is nev...
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Evidence To Support Forms Of Life
1,591 wordsDid the early Egyptians have help in building the pyramids? All over the world remain fantastic objects, vestiges of people or forces which the theories of archaeology, history, and religion cannot explain. There is something inconsistent about our archaeology. They have found electric batteries many thousands of years old. They have found strange beings in perfect space-suits with platinum fasteners. They have also found numbers with fifteen digits-something not registered by any computer. How ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
1,625 wordsPrenatal alcohol exposure is a preventable cause of birth defects, including mental retardation and neurodevelopmental deficits. Since the initial recognition in 1968 of the multiple effects that alcohol can have on the developing fetus [ 1 ] and the subsequent delineation in 1973 of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), [ 2 ] it has become clear that prenatal alcohol exposure can be associated with a wide range of abnormalities. [ 3 ] More than 80 % of children with FAS demonstrate prenatal and postnat...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
1,615 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects Prenatal alcohol exposure is a preventable cause of birth defects, including mental retardation and neurodevelopmental deficits. Since the initial recognition in 1968 of the multiple effects that alcohol can have on the developing fetus [ 1 ] and the subsequent delineation in 1973 of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), [ 2 ] it has become clear that prenatal alcohol exposure can be associated with a wide range of abnormalities. [ 3 ] More than 80 % of c...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Low Birth Weight
2,039 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is an increasing problem in our world today. At least 5, 000 infants are born each year with FAS, or about one out of every 750 live births, which is an alarming number. In the United States there has been a significant increase in the rate of infants born with FAS form 1 per 10, 000 births in 1979 to 6. 7 per 10, 000 in 1993 (Chang, Wilkins-Haug, Berman, Goetz 1). In a report, Substance Abuse and the American Woman, sent out by the Center on Addicti...
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